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...Wacker reported that the organism--grown either in light or in darkness--develops "profound and complex lesions" when the growth medium is deficient in the trace metal, zinc. Under such conditions, Dr. Walker noted, growth was severely limited and cell division was halted. The cell size increased eight-fold under conditions of extreme zinc deficiency...
...result," Dr. Wacker said, "was a doubling of the DNA [deoxyribonucleic acid] in the nucleus of the cell [a process that precedes normal cell division] although the RNA [ribonucleic acid] content of the cell was markedly reduced along with protein and zinc...
...coarse sackcloth robe worn over a hairshirt, she sits alone in her stone-floored cell. Her food is bread, water, an occasional cooked vegetable. Through a small grilled window she may look into a chapel, and down a narrow passageway there is another barred window where she takes her daily communion. In the cell is a straight chair, a table, a board that serves as her bed and a small washroom with a cold shower. Not since she closed the door behind her 16 years ago has she ever left this confined area...
Rome's Camaldolese sisters make ends meet by cooking and scrubbing for a local pensione, and laundering altar linens for a nearby Benedictine seminary. Sister Naz arena shares in the convent work by sewing and cutting the palms ; her materi als are delivered to her cell by a nun who taps at her door, whispers "Deo gratias," waits long enough for Sister Naz arena to hide in a recess of her cell, then sets the cloth or fronds inside the door...
...night, long after the other nuns have retired, she stays awake to pray; in her cell she has a "discipline" with the tiny whip that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...